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From Pride in Utah, another serving of homobigotry from the Right, dressed up as “pro-family” legislation. As if the wingers in Utah need to stroke themselves with bills like this.
Extremist and anti-gay Representative LaVar Christensen has just introduced House Bill 270, called the “Family Policy” bill. The language includes the State affirming marriage as “ordained by god” between a man and a woman.The language of the bill states:
as the public policy of Utah, that a family, consisting of a legally and
14 lawfully married man and woman and their children, is the fundamental unit of
15 society; and
16 requires that publicly funded social programs, government services, laws, and
17 regulations designed to support families be carefully scrutinized to ensure that they
18 promote the family.And as if we needed any more proof that LaVar Christensen and his Sutherland Institute cronies have never actually read the constitution, it also says, “Marriage and family predate all governments and are supported by and consistent with the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, the Creator and Supreme Judge of the World.”
Welcome back to the dark ages folks. I’m still going through the details of the bill, but it appears that it doesn’t actually effect any actual policies, but rather is a typical Utah GOP ‘Message Bill’ designed to garner favor with the most extreme 1% of the population. Utah already has a constitutional amendment (Amendment 3) which prohibits same sex marriage, civil unions or any governmental recognition similar to marriage in the state.
Even a constitutional amendment doesn’t stop the haters from pounding on taxpaying, same-sex couples there.
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Mormons**spits**
Nature’s god?That does so not refer to the Judeo-Christian god. It’s pretty clearly a deistic reference. They believed in a supernatural entity as the creator of the universe. But one that doesn’t isn’t involved in human affairs and doesn’t listen to prayer.
I find it so hysterically hypocritical when…Mormons start preaching about marriage being between a man and a woman.
Doctrines and Covenants 132 is still very much the Holy Scripture of the LDS movement:
So, what about grandparents?Or aunts/uncles/cousins/godparents and siblings? Does this moron realize the potential consequences of so narrowly defining a family that Katie Couric wouldn’t qualify (she’s a widow after all)?
I know that Christensen is a relatively common name in Utah, but I have to wonder if he is any relation to Steve Christensen, one of the victims of the bomber Mark Hoffmann. Christensen left a widow and 4 children, one of three families torn apart by Hoffmann’s murder spree (Hoffmann’s own family was of course torn apart). Both Christensen’s widow and the widower of the other bombing victim remarried – would their step-families qualify for government programs under LaVar’s definition?
Oh, and since Roman Catholics don’t believe in the Mormon “god” or the religious validity of their wedding rites, does this mean that Catholic Charities would not have to treat Mormons as families?
The mind truly boggles.
In the DoI, sure…When Christensen talks about “nature and nature’s God”, though, he’s referring to an entirely different entity — the one invoked by contemporary “divine command” moralists. In their use of the term, what most of us would call “nature” has nothing to do with it — “nature”, in the sense of “natural law” that they’re talking about, is purely a matter of doctrine, with the real world never quite perfectly matching the doctrines that they hold as more real than reality itself.